Author: Gill, 1883
Cryptopsaras couesi Gill, 1883
Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 (updated 2009-06-25)
See genus for diagnosis, biology, etc.
Habitat, Food, Reproduction: see suborder.
Distribution: all oceans, several records including larvae and males from off Madeira, the Azores and Gibraltar, large females from off Iceland.
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Bertelsen, 1951: 140-141, fig. 93 (larvae and young stages of males and females).
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.